Wow, it sure didn't take long for the right wingers to start blaming Michael Moore's new film for terrorism. This from the guy who was honored with today's quote of the day, that's right, the guy who proudly proclaimed that he no longer writes for the NY Times becuase "fanatical "fact-checking" copy-editors edited my copy into unreadable sludge":
One writer, Mark Steyn, who contributes to the National Review Online's Corner blog, posted an e-mail he received in order to identify the connection between Moore's Sicko and the British terrorists.
"'Would these be Doctors who work for the U.K. health care system so lavishly praised by Michael Moore? ...Perhaps they are not Jihadists at all but simply men driven insane by their employer? Maybe Michael Moore has spawned an entirely new breed of suicide bomber — the alienated UK health care worker'" Steyn quotes from one e-mail, after noting "I've been getting more than a few letters along these lines."
He also posted a second e-mail, and observed, "Now that Dr Mohammed Asha has been arrested in the Glasgow/London terrorist investigation, several readers have noticed that this artfully combines Michael Moore's two most recent enthusiasms, 'insurgents' and socialized health care." Steyn, however adds, "Mr Moore has yet to call these medico-jihadists 'Minutemen.'"
The National Review's The Corner was not the only leading conservative website to try to link Moore with the British attacks.
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